Thread 514126859

Is the British government really going to audit connections to Telnet BBS's and decode the Petscii to check for unapproved shitposts?

List of C64 BBS's. You need to buy a cartridge with Ethernet, it's pretty cheap though. $40.

The advantage of a BBS like this is it can be accessed by IP address (usually) as well. So if the British government bans your BBS because you're hosting free speech, you just get another IP address. People connecting by domain in non-UK areas will get the newest IP address from DNS, and people who are from oppressive regimes can simply find out the newest IP address with 'dig' and connect that way.

>>514126859 (OP)
I can tell you exactly what the british men would do. they would download all the gangrape kid porn that the foreigner rape rats are making out of the british daughters, wives, and so on. they'll be tuggin their little slugs off to the muslim raping their daughter or wife, chuckling that ol' bailey won't catch him and lock him up in the tin. the women will reject it because it doesn't have shinies. they'll stay on normal net and prowl it for foreign men to leave the husbands for.

the last of the british men who conquered the world died off long ago. all that remains are males, which is being generous, who get to watch all the misery, suffering, and pain caused by their impotence and lack of a will to fight.

hang them all.

>>514126859 (OP)
If you're on linux you can use syncTERM

>>514127778
I'm pretty sure the VICE C64 emulator now supports Internet by emulating the commonly found carts. I have a real C64 (more than one, including a NIB example) with a cart that combines a debugger, improved system functions, flash storage, and ethernet all in one device.

We're a decade past where we should have made wireless networks that bypass corporate and government bullshit.

These wireless networks already exist for hams. For non-hams you're crippled by long hauls and the only real way to build out is locally and then hit the Internet at some point anyway.

Ham data speed on HF, the really long-distance part of the radio spectrum, has been crippled by an FCC-imposed symbol rate limitation left over from eons ago. You can only do 2400 baud, IIRC. There has been a rule change where now you can use the entire 3KHz bandwidth of your signal in any way you wish to push data as fast as you like. Theoretically you can push a lot of data down a 3KHz channel with today's technology.

>>514127778
>6502
wowie

There is also the Gopher protocol, which was an competing protocol to HTTP. There are still a few hundred servers out there, and software to use it. Guide to get started here:
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gopherspace.html

Instead of using chat services like Discord, IRC is an alternative. On Windows mIRC is a decent client, and on Linux you have XChat or irssi if you prefer the command line.

People should also look into things like HAM radio or meshnets. Now is the time to invest some time into it. Something like LoRA is also an option, although it doesn't have huge range, it's ideal for just sending small messages and its low power requirements mean you can have a small battery work for years to relay. It gets interesting when you make a meshnet of them (so messages can hop around and you get greater range). These things are all fun projects to learn things anyway.

>>514126859 (OP)
my dude unlisted clearnet is obscure enough
the problem you don't seem to grasp is that nobody would use this obscure shit

Bumping
I gotta go do a bunch of things but I will read later
I've been thinking about getting into BBS recently

>>514127451
What's wrong with you

>>514127778
https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

>>514131854
https://jm.iq.pl/bbsy-kiedys-i-dzisiaj/

>>514126859 (OP)
This brand of NAS comes with free software that allows you to set up a public-facing BBS system.

>>514127778
Mac has MuffinTerm:
https://muffinterm.app/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge2kZg1m7b0

>>514132492
https://github.com/qterm/qterm

>>514129540
Plenty of services like Google or Meta can just delete your account (and you lose access to your data) for any reason they wish. They also like to use your data to sell it to third parties. If the average person knew just how much they were collecting on them they wouldn't use these services. Example: companies correlate your heart rate data from smartwatches/fitbit devices and scrolling social media, so they know which posts get an emotional reaction.

Self hosting, running your own services is the only way to ensure your data is private. You don't have to do anything crazy to start with (like forking out a lot of money on a homelab). Start with something like a mini PC and connect up something like a 4 or more terabyte HD to it. Software like TrueNAS makes it easy for you to run a server, you just install like new functionality like you might an app, they make it easy.

Why would you bother?

>So your data is yours
>Run things like Pi-Hole to block ads at the network level (so everyone on your home network benefits, phones/TV on wifi and the like don't show ads).
>Services like OpenVPN will allow you to connect your router remotely, so when you are working abroad you can appear to be connecting from home (for work or your region locked services will now work)
>Plex, stream movies/shows you've downloaded on your home network to all devices on your network, this way your own files are yours to watch when you please
>Home Assistant, be able to see all your "smart devices" (think lights, switches, robot vacuum and so on, be able to manage them without having to download 20 different apps that don't care about privacy).

There are other services on TrueNas, like being able to run your own Monero node so that you can verify transactions. Where something like TrueNAS shines is how it makes it easy to stack different services, like for example I really care about my privacy with Monero so can add something like Tor so a given transaction won't have my IP.